In this section you can find general information relating how you can help kids continue to improve their coordination to develop advanced skills and coordination. It is a good place to begin your reading and watching before moving onto the more specific skills sections.

This section covers how you can help kids develop advanced movement skills. Advanced movement skills include, amongst other qualities, power, foot speed, agility, a variety of jumping abilities and dynamic balance. By exposing kids to regular and challenging activities you can help kids acquire movement skills they can apply with success to any sporting situation.

Catching and interception are fundamental skills that relate to all skill based sports. This section deals with how you can help kids beyond ten years acquire increasingly coordinated catching and interception skills. You will learn to design activities and manipulate constraints, such as time and movement, to provide new challenges and advance kids skills. You'll also find lots of videos of advanced catching and interception skills.

Throwing and striking are fundamental skills that relate to many sports including tennis, baseball and cricket. The articles and videos in this section will help you understand how you can design play and practise activities that lead to more coordinated and adaptable throwing and striking skills. This section will also explain how how to manipulate constraints to create unlimited challenges.

Kicking and punting skills are fundamental to many sports including football, rugby and Australian rules football. This section deals with how kids can go from basic kicking and punting skills to fundamental skills that are coordinated, adaptable and easily transferable into any kicking realted sport. The section also contains plenty of video examples.

In this section you can learn how advanced skill combinations help kids increase their overall level of coordination by developing their attention skills, being able to execute skills more automatically, improving efficiency of skills and by challenging kids to cope under constraints.

In this section you can learn how to set skill challenges that require kids to problem solve. The ability to problem solve in any skill setting is an essential ingredient to expert skill performance. The activities you can find in this section will also help kids explore their own movement.

In this section you can learn how to use the skill development environment to encourage creativity in movement. Kids are well placed to attain high level skills in the long term if they have learnt to be creative and explore their own movement.

The skill acquisition essential reading section consists of articles we strongly advise you read before delving deeper into the specifics. You will find articles that give you background information that will help you understand the overall process of skill acquisition including how purposeful play, fundamental perceptual motor skills, deliberate play and deliberate practice all relate to each other and are important at different stages.

his section provides you with valuable information on what research tells us should be the guiding principles of skill acquisition, the defining capabilities of expert performers and the best way to learn. The articles and accompanying videos in this section deliver what can be complex information in an easy to understand manner, making it easier for you to facilitate successful learning experiences for young athletes.

Deliberate play and deliberate practise are both important concepts of skill acquisition. This section helps you understand exactly what they are, their benefits and when they are important in the skill development process, as well as lots of practical information about how to facilitate deliberate play and deliberate practise that relates to all sports.

his section teaches you how anticipation and pattern recognition skills help kids play sport at a higher level. Skill acquisition research is showing us the importance of these skills to sports performance. The articles and videos contained in this section will help you facilitate experiences for young athletes that lead to the development of anticipation skills and the ability to recognise patterns in their sport.

Tactics and decision making skills are defining capabilities of expert performers. In this section you will find information on how tactical and decision making skills lead to successful sporting outcomes, how these skills develop and what you can do for kids beyond ten years to facilitate the improvement of these skills over time.

his section will help you go about designing practise activities in keeping with key skill acquisition principles. It will also give you plenty of practical examples that relate to lots of sports. You will find articles that will help you facilitate the right environment and culture to enhance skill learning.

The skills and pressure section helps you understand how pressure, which mostly comes in the form of competition, can affect skill performance. This section will teach you how you can facilitate skill learning experiences that will lead to pressure resilience skills in the future, and how you can manipulate play and practice to improve skill performance under pressure.

This section teaches how your interactions with young athletes is crucial in helping them develop self reflection and evaluation skills which are essential to long term skill improvement. You will also find lots of information on how play and practise activities can be designed to emphasise feedback, which in turn helps athletes to reflect on their experiences.

This section looks at how the brain changes as athletes acquire more efficient and adaptable skills. Understanding these changes will help you be clear and consistent in your approach to the skill learning process in the long term. You will also find valuable information regarding critical periods of brain development and how the play and practise you facilitate - and your interactions in and around this play and practise - can shape brain development.

In the competition section you can hear from coaching experts on all aspects of competition including planning, interacting with athletes before, during and after competition, and how coaches should approach competition for different ages.

This section helps you understand more about coaching styles and how coaches can develop their own consistent style of coaching while also demonstrating the flexibility in their approach required to successfully work with individuals.

The coach athlete relationship is one of the most important aspects in the development of a young athlete. This section deals with how you can intentionally build coach athlete relationships of trust and respect to help motivate and push your athletes beyond their comfort zone.

This section covers all things regarding coaching programs, including laying the foundations for success, culture, structure and group engagement.

The aim of this section is to help coaches develop a greater understanding of their potential role as a coach. Expert coaches have a far greater influence than just on the field or court. They are amongst other things a mentor, parent educator and a shaper of the personal qualities that pervade their athletes lives well beyond sport.

The coach development section consists of articles and activities designed to help coaches enhance their effectiveness. You will find a wide variety of topics relating specifically to both the physical and psychological skill development of kids.

In the coaching and psychology section you will find a range of articles that will help you understand and nurture children’s healthy psychological skill development in many ways.

In the mindful coaching section you will find a series of articles focused on helping you develop coaching skills that will allow you to monitor your own internal experiences during coaching challenges so you can more flexibly respond to children during these times.

The ten years and above tennis section contains information and play and practice activities that have been designed to optimise the skill learning experience for young players. There is an emphasis on developing young athletes game sense, tactical, technical and decision making skills, anticipation and adaptable physical skills.

The ten years and beyond soccer/football section can be used to help kids achieve ongoing improvement in their skills. All the drills and game based activities are based on what sports expertise research has revealed is the best way for kids to acquire skills. There is an emphasis on the development of the perceptual and game sense aspects of the game.

In the general psychological development section you will find general information about children’s developmental stages from a psychological perspective.

In the psychology social development section you will find articles that help you understand and nurture children’s social development. This section will focus on children’s ability to experience interpersonal relationships that sustain and develop well-being.

In the psychology emotional development section you will find articles that help you understand and nurture children’s emotional development. This section will focus on children’s internal experiences, including thoughts, feelings, and urges.

In the psychology attention and mindfulness section you will find plenty of activities and articles that help you nurture children’s ability to pay attention in the present moment and respond well to difficult internal experiences (such as thoughts, feelings, and urges) that arise. These are vital skills that positively impact development of well-being in wide-ranging ways.

In the psychology behaviour regulation section you will find articles designed to help you nurture children’s ability to regulate behaviour in various situations.

In the psychology resilience section you will find articles that will help you nurture children’s ability to continue to apply effort to life endeavours when faced with adversity and setbacks.

In the psychology self-concept section you will find articles that will help you support experiences in children that develop self-views of importance and competence.

In the psychology brain development section you will find articles that explore children’s development from a brain perspective, particularly focusing on the importance of the sensitive periods of brain development.

In the psychology teens section you will find articles designed to help you understand and nurture the healthy psychological development of children through the challenging teen years.

This section provides you with general and background information on parenting your children beyond ten years. This is a good place to start reading and learning to understand more about how your child will continue to develop and how you can best play your role to support wellbeing in the long term.

The parenting and play section aims to help you understand the wonder of play, your role in their play, how play experiences can be facilitated and manipulated and how play is a vehicle through which you can build your relationship. 

The parenting and skills section helps you understand what role you can best play to positively influence your child's skill development beyond ten years.

In the parenting and psychology section you will find a range of articles that will help you understand and nurture your child’s healthy psychological development in many ways.

In the mindful parenting section you will find a series of articles focused on helping you develop parenting skills. These skills will allow you to monitor your own internal experiences during parenting challenges so you can more flexibly respond to you your child during these times.

This section deals with how exercise, physical activity and sport impacts kid’s social development and interactions.

This section provides covers how exercise affects cognitive function, kids ability to form memory and learn and how exercise impacts kids academic performance in the long term.

In this section you can find practical information from expert nutritionists.  You can learn how certain foods affect brain function and development, how to achieve a healthy balanced diet for kid’s, tried and tested recipes and tips to make the daily food tasks a whole lot easier.

This section covers what you need to know about physical activity levels of kids including how much should they be getting at different ages, what type and how it will affect them long term.